The Sea Cadet Corps
The Sea Cadets are a uniformed, disciplined youth movement based upon the customs and traditions of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. Our aim is: To help young people towards responsible adulthood by encouraging valuable personal attributes and high standards of conduct using a nautical theme based on Naval customs.
Many Sea Cadet Units – known as Training Ships – are based in inner city areas where they continue to promote the origins of the movement, providing worthwhile activities for young people who might otherwise not have the opportunity to develop their life skills.
Although more than 20 percent of new recruits embarking on careers in the Royal Navy are Sea Cadets, the movement is not primarily a pre-service organisation, but sets it sights on equipping young people with the essentials of self reliance, personal discipline and team work which will hold them in good stead whatever career they pursue.
Our core training is based on seamanship and traditional maritime skills, but Cadets can also study mechanical and electrical engineering, communications, cookery, computers, band musician, Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, BTEC Diploma in Public Services, Music & Engineering and a host of associated subjects to prepare them for adult life.
With the experience of the Sea Cadets under their belts, many ex-Cadets have risen to the very top of their professions. Old boys include such famous names as movie star Sean Connery, former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, TV personality Rolf Harris, jazz legend Kenny Ball – not forgetting a former Archbishop of Canterbury.
Why do young people join the Sea Cadets? Because they want to do something worthwhile – Because they want to belong to the best youth movement around – Because they want to invest in their own community and make the most of what the new millennium may bring – Because they want to meet the challenge of the future with the motto – Ready Aye Ready.
